Child&#39;s chair.



J. E. WALLACE.

CHILD'S CHAIR. 7 APPLICATION FILED 00125, 1908.

Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. JOHN E. WALLACE, or 'LOS .ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, n'ssrenon orpwo-rrrrns'mo Y J BURKE, of ms LEG-ELM, GALIRORNIA.

CHILD'S 936,685. sp cifi ation otIc-tters lat nt Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

p i Application filed October 5, 19,08. flerial No. 456,118.

To all whom it may concern; 'are preferably formed of an inexpensive Be it known that I, JOHN E. WALLAc a canvas though they may be formed of other citizen of the United :States, residing at Los expensive materials, such as leather. Memgeles, in the county ofLos Angeles and hers extend upwardly from the rear edge State of California, have invented new and of the seat assing over chairhooks 12 which so useful Improvements in Ghildrens Chairs, are preferably covered with rubber or other of which the following is a specification. material that will prevent marring of the My invention has reference to that class of furniture to which they may be secured.-

chairs known as high chairs ,and has par, Suspension members 10 pass over hooks l2 ticular reference to chairs that are designed an are secured to the members 11 by means 5 to be detachabl secured to the back of an of rivets 13.. Members '11 extend downordinary chair m such a manner that the wardly and forwardly and pass through seat will be supported at the proper height apertures 8 formed 1n the front portion or above the ordinary chair seat, so that the e ehild occupying the chair will be supported ends with buckles 14, which are adapted 70 at the proper heightrelative to a table. 1 to engage with the ends of members 10 by important object of my invention isto means of which the vertical adjustment of provide a portable chair that may be 001- the seat may be accomplished. Secured at I lapsed on the supporting chair to 'which it the top of members 10 and 11,- and prefis detachably secured without removing it erably just below books 12, is a transversely-75 therefrom. 1 extending member 15 which serves to main- Another object of myfinvention is to protain the parallel relations of the top flexible vide a chair having flexible supporting memsuspension members or straps 10, and at the bers by means ofwhich the adjustment of. same time prevent hooks 12 from spreading the'seat may be accomplished without the. apart when the seat is attached to a chair 80. use of a complex mechanism. having a rounded back edge. A flexible further object is to' provide a chair that 'safet strap 16 is secured to one of the may be folded into a small compact mass mem ers' 11, its free end being provided 7 v for transportation. with a snap hook 17 adapted to engage a I accomplish the above object by means ring 18 secured to the other member 11. 85 of the device described herein and illustrated A strip of flexible material 19 is secured to in the accompanying drawings, in which the rear edge of seat 5 to prevent it m'arring Figure l.-is a perspectiveview of my deor injuring the furniture. Y

vice in its operative position, attached to the en it is desired to collapse the seat back of' an ordinary chair. F1 2.is a on the chair to which it is secured, the rear 90 perspective view of my device in its 001- edge is moved upwardly when the seat will lapsed position; attached to the back of an rest flatly against the back of the chair, as

ordinary chair. Fig. 3. is a longitudinal clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

detailed section taken on line 3 3of Fig. 4 i Among the advantages incident to my 40 illustratingthe method of adjusting the seat. invention the following may be men- 95 Fig. 4.-is a bottom plan View of a portion tioned;-Fir'st,-the chair may be detachof the seat illustrating method of adjustably secured to an ordinary -chair, thus disment. 7 pensing with additional furniture. Sec- As clearly shown in the drawings my imond,1t may be collapsed upon the chair proved chair consists of a seat 5 provided .to which it is detachably secured without 1 on its front and rear end edges 6 with trans necessitating its removal therefrom, this adversely extending cleats 7, which are devantage being clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 s'ignedto stiffen the seat', which for economy of the drawings. Third,by means of the in manufacture is formed of a light and flexible supporting members I am enabled inexpensive material. Seat 5 is preferably to do away with all kinds of complicated 105" provided on its front and rear edges withmechanisms and rigid adjusting devices thusa plurality of apertures 8 and 9 through enabling one when transporting the chair which are adapted to pass the flexible susfrom place to place to form it lnto'a small pension members 10 and 11, preferably compact package. 1 formed integral as shown. These members Having described my invention what I 119 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Let- '1 members, and a safety strap carried by one ters Patent is of said continuous flexible members and z A ortable high chair comprising, a llgld. adanted to be attached to the other of said seat iaving slots at its front and rear edges, continuous fiexible'members. 1s;

5 continuous flexible members passing through In witness that I claim the foregoing I said slots, hooks carried by said flexible have hereunto subscribed my name this members, a flexible connecting portion be 28th day of September, 1908. tween said flexible members near the place JOHN E. WALLACE. of attachment of said hooks, and adjustable Witnesses: 0 means carried beneath the seat for shorten- EDMUND A. STRAUSE.

.ing the length of said continuous flexible OLLIE PALMER. 

